300 Sermon Illustrations from Charles Spurgeon
Elliot Ritzema
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300 Sermon Illustrations from Charles Spurgeon
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So is man’s mind constituted, that we can always see a thing better through a picture than anyhow else. If you tell a man a simple truth, he does not see it nearly so well as if you told it to him in an illustration.
Charles Spurgeon
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Introduction
Those who preach and teach the Bible are always looking for real-life stories, examples, and similes that illustrate the truths of Scripture. The nineteenth-century London preacher Charles Spurgeon was a master at this. (And if you’re reading this introduction, you probably already know that.) Spurgeon worked hard to come up with compelling illustrations because he saw the power of illustrations in Scripture itself.
In a sermon on Jeremiah 6:29, Spurgeon said, “Metaphors often convey to the mind truth which otherwise would not have reached the understanding, for men frequently see under the guise and form of an illustration a doctrine which, if it had been nakedly stated, they could not have comprehended. Illustrations, like windows, let light into the chambers of the mind.”1 In order to have its greatest effect, truth needs to be presented in a variety of ways, and one of the most effective ways is through a concrete illustration that hearers will readily grasp. Spurgeon continued:
There is this use also in a metaphor, that even if it be not understood at first, it excites thought, and men exercise their minds upon it as children upon an enigma, and so they learn perhaps more through a dark saying than ...
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About 300 Sermon Illustrations from Charles SpurgeonIn this book you’ll find 300 of the best illustrations Spurgeon used in his sermons. These have not previously appeared in the other Spurgeon illustration collections Feathers for Arrows, Barbed Arrows from the Quiver of C. H. Spurgeon, or Flashes of Thought. Instead, they have been carefully selected from his volumes of sermons. These illustrations are also labeled with preaching themes and Scripture references, making them easy to find in Logos. With 300 Sermon Illustrations from Charles Spurgeon, you’ll be inspired in your preaching by a master at driving the truths of Scripture into the hearts of his hearers. |
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